Hamza Yassin opens up about how partner Jowita Przystal worked with his dyslexia in rehearsals

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Strictly Come Dancing‘s Hamza Yassin has laid bare his experience living with dyslexia, describing it as his “superpower”.

The wildlife presenter and cameraman, acclaimed for his work on shows such as Countryfile and Animal Park, won the BBC dance competition in 2022 becoming a keen fan-favourite along the way.

In a podcast dedicated to raising awareness around the learning disorder, he said: “My dyslexia is my superpower, it’s what mom nature gave me… it’s one thing that folks say you wish to treatment, however to be completely trustworthy I don’t wish to treatment it. It’s to not be cured. It’s my reward.”

Yassin additionally revealed the lengths his partner and fellow winner Jowita Przystal went to throughout rehearsals to convey out his greatest performances in the course of the reside reveals.

“In the first few weeks, within the first week really, Jowita figured out that I am different, different to everyone else,” he instructed Lessons in Dyslexic Thinking. “She’ll say, ‘Turn to the left’, and I’m going ‘Which way is left?’”

After telling Przystal he was dyslexic, the dancer tailored her educating utilizing spatial and visible strategies to allow Yassin to be taught in a manner that was snug for him.

“She automatically figured out that in the dance routine I’m spatially aware of where I am in relation to north, south, east, west.

“She goes, ‘Wow, okay. I see how your brain works. You’re a visual learner.”

Yassin shared how “ambidextrous” Przystal would show the male a part of the method for example of what he would want to do.

“She will say, ‘Don’t put your foot there’… and behold once we dance together I realise why my foot can’t go there, because her foot’s going to be in that position.

“It was phenomenal to see someone get the way I think and to change her way of teaching to accommodate me and I could not have done it without Jowita.”

Yassin and Przystal had been topped the winners of Strictly Come Dancing’s twentieth sequence.

The pair competed towards Fleur East and Vito Coppola, Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu, and Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez in the grand remaining.

The Strictly winner was chosen via a public vote, with judges’ scores serving solely as pointers.

In the ultimate, Yassin danced the Salsa to “Ecuador” by Sash! that includes Rodriguez, the Couple’s Choice to “Jerusalema – Remix” by Master KG that includes Burna Boy and Nomcebo Zikode, and his Show Dance was to “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” by Irving Berlin.